AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Linux Performance
Overall the new AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card for Linux gaming/graphics was coming out just ahead of the prior-gen Radeon RX 7800 XT. The Radeon RX 9070 GRE was about 12% faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti across these benchmarks on Linux. That's great news if the ~$549 pricing of the RX 9070 GRE holds compared to the RTX 5060 Ti at $569+ and some listings putting it above $600. The RX 9070 GRE was around 80% the performance of the Radeon RX 9070.
The Radeon RX 9070 GRE power consumption was similar to the RX 7800 XT too, but it was around 33% higher than the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti on average or 28% at peak power. The NVIDIA RTX 50 Blackwell graphics cards continue easily leading over AMD RDNA4 for the best performance-per-Watt on Linux.
👁 AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card
One of my most surprising takeaways from this testing was how competitive the RX 9070 GRE was to the RTX 5060 Ti for Vulkan ray-tracing. The Vulkan ray-tracing traditionally has been NVIDIA's strong point especially on Linux with the open-source RADV driver having long struggled with ray-tracing. But thanks to improvements building up over time, in a number of the Vulkan RT benchmarks conducted the Radeon RX 9070 GRE was performing competitively with the RTX 5060 Ti.
Thanks to AMD for providing the XFX Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12GB review sample for launch day Linux testing. This is a strong contender in the ~$550 price-range if that pricing holds and is backed by fully open-source and upstream Linux graphics driver support. This graphics card was tested out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 while not yielding any troubles.
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